Senior Lawyer - Albina Rakhmidinova
Albina Rakhmidinova
Senior Lawyer
Areas of Practice
Banking, Microfinance & Insurance
Public-Private Partnership
Contracts
Taxation
Project Finance
Languages
Kyrgyz, Russian, English
Albina Rakhmidinova is a Senior lawyer and member of the Banking Microfinance & Insurance, Public-Private Partnership and Project Finance Practice Groups of the firm. Albina’s other areas of practice include taxation and contracts. Albina has extensive experience in representing clients in a variety of banking transactions, including secured lending, financing, refinancing and debt restructuring, and advising foreign and local clients on tax matters. Albina was involved in discussing and drafting public-private partnership (PPP) regulatory framework in the Kyrgyz Republic, including a new PPP law and a number of other related laws and regulations.
Portfolio
- advised Dutch company, one of the largest financiers of the microfinance sector worldwide, with respect to its loans to Kyrgyz leading micro-credit companies;
- advised one of the largest global development financial institution focused exclusively on the private sector, in connection with its financing of Kyrgyz banks;
- advised major Kyrgyz bank in connection with its corporate loans, financial leasing facilities;
- conducted legal due diligence on number of Kyrgyz companies and assets involving the analysis of corporate performance, rights and interests in movable and immovable property and commitments;
- filled in an extensive legal questionnaire for a global nutrition, weigh management and skin-care company in connection with a potential taxation of its local distribution network.
Professional Background
Kalikova & Associates Law Firm (since June 2008);
Intern, Economic Cooperation and Integration Division, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), Geneva, Switzerland (January-March 2012);
Intern, Aspen Institute, Environment and Energy Project, Washington DC, USA (January-May 2008);
Intern, International Center for Not-for- Profit Law (ICNL), Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan (June-July 2007);
Lawyer, Legal Clinic of American University of Central Asia (January-April 2006).
Education
LL.B in International & Business Law, American University of Central Asia (2009);
Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA (2008);
American Institute on Political and Economic Systems, Prague, Czech Republic (July-August 2006).
Professional Activities and Affiliations
Association of Lawyers of Kyrgyzstan;
Expert of the Supervisory Board of Center for Promotion of Public Private Partnerships and Investments Public Foundation;
Member of the Team of Public-Private Partnership Specialists of the Central Asia.
Speeches and Presentations, Publications
Global PPP Guide 2016, chapter on Kyrgyzstan/ 2016;
Public-Private Partnerships: Legislative Review - April, 2013, co-authored with Gulnara Kalikova;
10 frequently asked questions about borrowing from Kyrgyz banks, The Times of Central Asia, Retail Banking Section, May 10, 2012, co-authored with Alexander Ahn;
“How to Start a Bank in the Kyrgyz Republic?”, The Times of Central Asia 2012, co-authored with Pamira Sainazarova;
“Public Private Partnerships: The new opportunities for Kyrgyzstan”, Akipress informational agency, Business and Power column, August 2010, co-authored with Gulnara Kalikova;
“Aircraft Finance: Regulation, Security and Enforcement,” Aircraft Finance online, Sweet & Maxwell Limited, London, 2009, co-authored with Gulnara Kalikova
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